Stupid Male Incident #26, Page 5

PANEL 1

Chris continues his monologue about work.

CHRIS: "...once we had to unload a truckload of aquariums. She was like, 'I'm not gonna help you.' And I was so pissed... I told the manager..."

PANEL 2

Caption: "One hour later."

A wall of text shows Chris has been talking non-stop about his job - goldfish tanks, zeolite cartridges, Sindy, his boss, music at work, oldies stations, Eminem, Enrique, etc.

Rachel responds with increasingly bored phrases:

RACHEL: "Yeah. Oh, wow. Uh-huh." ... "I... Uhh..." ... "Uh-huh... Sure. Power to you, brother."

Label: "trying to bend spoon with mind"

Rachel spaces out, staring at her spoon.

RACHEL (thinking): "Ooh, this is a great time to work on that Unified Theory..."

That isn’t just random text in the background. I wrote a long monologue about working at Pets Conglomerated and how you have to put zeolite crystals into the filters in goldfish tanks or the ammonia will kill them. That’s the sort of thing I would actually monologue about!

The book Rachel is reading in the second to last panel is Stephen Hawking’s The Universe in a Nutshell. In addition to Trent Reznor, I also crushed heavily on Stephen Hawking and Brian Greene. Rawr.